Rankings of extreme and widespread dry and wet events in the Iberian Peninsula between 1901 and 2016

Liberato, Margarida L. R.; Montero, Irene; Gouveia, Célia; Russo, Ana; Ramos, Alexandre M.; Trigo, Ricardo M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-197-2021

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19 Feb 2021

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| 19 Feb 2021

Rankings of extreme and widespread dry and wet events in the Iberian Peninsula between 1901 and 2016

Margarida L. R. Liberato, Irene Montero, Célia Gouveia, Ana Russo, Alexandre M. Ramos, and Ricardo M. Trigo

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SC1: 'comments', Paolo De Luca, 24 Aug 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to 'comments'', Margarida Liberato, 02 Nov 2020
RC1: 'Comment on "Rankings of extreme and widespread dry and wet events in the Iberian Peninsula between 1901-2016"', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Sep 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1', Margarida Liberato, 02 Nov 2020
RC2: 'general Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Sep 2020
- AC3: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2', Margarida Liberato, 02 Nov 2020
RC3: 'Review Comments:', Anonymous Referee #3, 26 Sep 2020
- AC4: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #3', Margarida Liberato, 02 Nov 2020

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ED: Publish as is (11 Nov 2020) by José Marengo

AR by Margarida L. R. Liberato on behalf of the Authors (25 Nov 2020)

Short summary

Extensive, long-standing dry and wet episodes are frequent climatic extreme events (EEs) in the Iberian Peninsula (IP). A method for ranking regional extremes of persistent, widespread drought and wet events is presented, using different SPEI timescales. Results show that there is no region more prone to EE occurrences in the IP, the most extreme extensive agricultural droughts evolve into hydrological and more persistent extreme droughts, and widespread wet and dry EEs are anti-correlated.